Word: travels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enter Princeton, the football objective correlative of New Jersey and 1978 Ivy doormat. The Tigers travel to Hanover, N.H., and shut out Dartmouth, 16-0 before an eager-to-leave crowd...
...After a hard evening onstage, he has been known to put away a lobster dinner followed by a steak dinner and an entire basket of rolls, and then to dive for leftovers on his companion's plate. Lambrusco, the slightly fizzy red wine of his native region, does not travel well, according to his palate. When on tour, Pavarotti orders bottles of Mouton-Cadet 1975, say, mixes them with bottles of Perrier water and?ecco!?instant Lambrusco. Wherever he goes he has access to an expert chef: himself. At major stopovers he likes to take a hotel suite...
That tale of travel woe is told by Author Vance Packard, one of the many cultural and corporate heavyweights on the New York-Boston axis who have vacation homes on the Vineyard or Nantucket. What they also have in common is a feeling of strained camaraderie and a fund of furiously exasperating stories about Air New England, which links 14 New England stops with Boston and New York City. Says New York Times Columnist Russell Baker, a Nantucket man: "It's an eerie operation. I resign myself to disaster every time I book with them." CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite...
...carriers like Eastern and United, it continues to operate in much the same manner as the "commuter" airlines. These are what the industry bluntly describes as its "problem" segment: the more than 200 small, often haphazardly managed, short-hop outfits that have mushroomed since the Government began deregulating air travel...
...what most Americans would consider inviolable political liberties. When the revolution took a turn to the left in the early sixties, the government changed the motto on the Cuban centavo from "Country of Liberty" to "Country or Death." Certainly, Cubans have lost at least several liberties; the freedom to travel to non-socialist countries, for example. This restriction was implemented in part for ideological effect, but mainly for the more practical reason that it is impossible to exchange Cuban currency in the West. The government also prohibits emigration of citizens who are of military...